Bruce Cameron

Editor’s Note: The following column was originally published in 2009.

When I look up at the sky, the one thing I don’t expect to see is my feet. That’s exactly the view I got, though, when a patch of wet, slippery floor caused my legs to go out from underneath me and my head to smack the ground as if I were river dancing upside down.

It was like that scene in “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World” where Ethel Merman slips on a banana peel, only I think it was funnier when she did it.

I hit my head so hard I saw “Dancing With the Stars” — though I suppose the fact that my kids were watching it on te...